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ATS Withdraws Challenges to the FTC’s Final Non-Compete Rule After the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Denies its Motion to Stay...

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ATS Tree Services, LLC (“ATS”) has voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit it filed in April 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania challenging the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Non-Compete...more

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Court Enjoins FTC Noncompete Ban: Appeal Likely

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A federal judge in Texas has enjoined the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, leaving the FTC’s attempt to quash such agreements waiving in the breeze, at least for the time being....more

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Noncompete Agreements – Employer Options and Strategies to Reduce Risks

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas has issued an order in the Ryan case staying the effective date on a nationwide basis the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Rules banning...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

SuperVision - Labor and Employment Law Insights, Issue 3, September 2024

Welcome to the fall issue of SuperVision, our labor and employment e-newsletter. In this edition, we cover the current status of the FTC’s attempts to ban noncompetes, OSHA’s proposed heat standard, how to handle political...more

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Non-Competition Agreements; FTC Rule Status

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As we previously reported, on April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced their final rule banning most “non-competition” agreements. The FTC determined non-competition agreements were an unfair method of...more

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Next Steps for Employers After FTC Noncompete Rule Enjoined

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What’s next for employers who want to protect their businesses from competition from departing employees, including the loss of customers, employees, and confidential information? With a federal court injunction against the...more

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The Saga’s Not Over – FTC Appeals Florida Court’s Stay of Non-Compete Rule

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Just over a month ago, employers throughout the United States breathed a sigh of relief after Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas issued a summary judgment ruling in the Ryan v. FTC litigation setting aside the...more

Troutman Pepper

States' Action Still Viable Despite Ban of FTC Noncompete Rule

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The Northern District of Texas’s nationwide ban on the Federal Trade Commission’s noncompete rule isn’t a complete bar to government enforcement. The rule sought to curb unfair methods of competition and would have voided...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Federal Judge Blocks FTC Non-Compete Ban

The wait is over. On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed ban on non-compete agreements...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Update: FTC’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Set Aside

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Final Rule that renders invalid non-compete clauses in standard employment agreements. 16 C.F.R. § 910. On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the...more

Troutman Pepper

FTC Noncompete Rule Risks a Wave of State AG Actions

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On April 23, the FTC promulgated its final rule banning noncompetes nationwide. Originally published in Law360 - May 23, 2024....more

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NLRB Rolling Back More Rules from the Trump Administration

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In its continuing repudiation of policies developed under the Trump Administration, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has published its Fair Choice-Employee Voice Final Rule....more

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Texas District Court Upends FTC Noncompete Rule

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In the case of Ryan LLC v. Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al., Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order with “nationwide effect” on August 20,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FTC Noncompete Rule Is Set Aside, But Appeal Is Expected and States May Act

On August 20, 2024, in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, a district court in the Northern District of Texas held “unlawful and set[] aside” the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Non-Compete Rule, 16 C.F.R. § 910.1–.6. That...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Texas Federal Judge Strikes Down FTC Non-Compete Ban

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Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Tuesday struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) pending ban on non-compete covenants, concluding that the issuance of the FTC’s Rule...more

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Texas Federal Court Invalidates FTC’s Non-Compete Ban As Unconstitutional

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A federal judge in Texas has barred enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) new regulations, which otherwise would have banned most non-compete agreements. Holding that the FTC lacked statutory authority to...more

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Texas Federal Judge Strikes Down FTC Non-Compete Ban

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On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final Rule that the FTC enacted to ban non-compete agreements. Judge Brown held...more

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Texas Court Issues National Injunction Barring Enforcement of the FTC’s Noncompete Ban

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In a complete victory for plaintiffs, a Texas court permanently enjoined the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule banning nearly all employee noncompetes. In the absence of the court’s decision, the rule had been scheduled...more

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FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Blocked

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Bottom line: As of Tuesday night, the FTC’s non-compete rule has been set aside, cannot be enforced, and will not become effective on September 4, 2024. As an update to our prior alert regarding the Federal Trade...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Breaking News: Federal Judge Blocks Nationwide Implementation of the FTC’s New Rule Banning Noncompete Agreements

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On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in Texas issued a final order in the pending case, Ryan v. FTC, holding that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) exceeded its authority in issuing a ban on noncompete clauses....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Final Word on Final Rule? Texas District Court Eviscerates FTC’s Non-Compete Ban

On July 3, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas entered a limited, preliminary injunction barring the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from enforcing its controversial Final Rule...more

Brooks Pierce

Texas Court Issues Nationwide Ban on FTC’s Non-Compete Rule; Appeals Expected

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On August 20, 2024, a Texas federal court ruled that the FTC’s final rule banning most non-compete agreements (the “Non-Compete Rule”) cannot go into effect as scheduled. Many employers had been preparing to comply with the...more

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Failure to launch – Texas court grants nationwide permanent injunction, icing the FTC’s noncompete ban indefinitely

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) nationwide ban on post-employment noncompetition agreements is no more following a Northern District of Texas judge’s ruling imposing a nationwide permanent injunction. Although a long and...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Federal Judge Blocks FTC’s Noncompete Rule Nationwide

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On August 20, 2024, Judge Brown of the Northern District of Texas blocked the FTC’s Final Rule banning noncompetes. The decision comes just over a month after Judge Brown’s preliminary injunction order, which stayed the rule...more

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Texas Court Issues Nationwide Injunction Striking Down the FTC Noncompete Ban

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On August 20, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction barring the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Final Rule that bans all noncompete agreements. The court’s findings...more

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